Table of Content

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
  • Old-style markers
• OPTIONS
• SEE ALSO
  • Syntax specification
  • Perl implementations
  • Some other implementations
• AUTHORS
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

git-md-toc - generate the table of content from the Markdown file(s)

SYNOPSIS

git-md-toc [OPTIONS] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

Read an input and generate the table of content (TOC) based on the markup of the file which is assumed Markdown formatted. The outcome is also formatted as Markdown.

The following HTML comments are recognized in a special way and handled as the markers to insert new TOC or update existing one.

• <!-- toc -->

  is used to point the place in the document for putting a new TOC.

• <!-- toc-begin -->, <!-- toc-end -->

  are used to point the beginning and end of the existing TOC.

Be noticed that these markers themselves must be sticky to the left edge of the lines where they are situated. This rule doesn't spread on the content within.

The updated TOC is always ended with double new line to separate from the further text below. On the same reason, if the TOC is preceded with some text above, the double new line is prepending the TOC.

Old-style markers

Early, before 2022, another set of markers was used: md-toc, md-toc-begin and md-toc-end.

Currently they are considered obsolete and not recommended in use. However they are still supported but replaced with the newer ones when TOC is updated.

Be noticed that you shouldn't mix old and new paired markers to designate the beginning and end of the same TOC.

OPTIONS

• -h, --help

  Print this help and exit.

• -t TITLE, --title=TITLE

  Specify the title for the TOC. If TITLE is not specified or it's empty value, the default value Table of Content is assumed.

• -l LEVEL, --level=LEVEL

  Set the header level used for the TOC title. Available values are 1 to 6. The default value is 1.

• -d DEPTH, --depth=DEPTH

  Use DEPTH to control how many levels of headers to include in the TOC. Available values are 1 to 6. Defaults to 6.

• -T TEXT_ENCODE,TITLE_ENCODE, --transcode=TEXT_ENCODE,TITLE_ENCODE

  Point encodings for the file content or the TOC title. It should be specified explicitly to correctly parse inputs in UTF-8 or other encodings.

  The first value tells that both text and TOC title come in the particular encoding.

  The second value specifies encoding for the TOC title only. It can be useful in DOS sessions for setting another encoding for the TOC title declared in the command line. For example, to correctly set the TOC title in Cyrillic in UTF8 encoded files I had to separately declare cp1251 for the TOC title encoding.

• --title-transcode=TITLE_ENCODE

  Point another encoding for the TOC title. It works similarly as --transcode=,TITLE_ENCODE (note the comma in the option).

  This option is obsolete and kept for compatibility reasons. Use -T/--transcode instead.

• -u, --update

  Update the file with the new table of content. It works even when reading from STDIN. In this case the outcome will be printed to STDOUT.

• -c, --create-before

• -C, --create-after

  Create and add the TOCs before and/or after the input.

  In combination with the -u/--update option they allow to create and insert the TOCs from the scratch even if no any TOC marker is specified.

• --folding=collapse|expand

  Make TOC foldable. Two values collapse and expand are enabled.

  When the document has many sections and TOC becomes correspondingly quite big, it can be more friendly to make TOC foldable.

SEE ALSO

Syntax specification

• https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Perl implementations

• https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Markdown
• https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::MultiMarkdown
• https://metacpan.org/pod/Markdown::TOC

Some other implementations

• https://github.com/ekalinin/github-markdown-toc
• https://github.com/ekalinin/github-markdown-toc.go
• https://github.com/frnmst/md-toc
• https://github.com/eGavr/toc-md
• https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc

AUTHORS

Ildar Shaimordanov <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2019-2022 Ildar Shaimordanov. All rights reserved.

MIT License